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However, car insurance company has nothing to gain from faking the numbers. Researches who publish an influential study that gets a lot of citations, and becaus
by drno123 5y ago
However, car insurance company has nothing to gain from faking the numbers. Researches who publish an influential study that gets a lot of citations, and because of it they can get tenure, big contracts or lucrative job offers, have everything to gain from faking numbers.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoThat's a good point, but it could be that the person tasked with gathering the numbers had something to gain (their own time, if they felt they could fudge and still get paid), and nobody checked the work. Still seems like a long shot. Typically we ask, "Cui bono?"
- vlovich123 5y agoThe guy who’s now a senior executive at a very large public company making quite good money and was very well regarded in the field for a long time for making a breakthrough discovery?
- tpoacher 5y agoThis is only true of researchers whose career depends on fraud. In this case, if anything, an established researcher has everything to lose from such data, whereas the insurance company could give out flaky data for whatever reason and not care about it.